English Tamil

( English-Tamil Basic vocabulary) University of Pennsylvania

A kind of sauce A kind of pot A kind of pot A kind of sauce A lot A lot of noise A thin pancake A Ability Ability (n)Ability Above Abundance Abundance

Account Accustomed to (IIIintr.)

Ache (VI tr.) Acquire Act (III intr.) Act (VI tr.)Add (III tr.) Add Advance Advertisement Advice Affable Afford (III intr. After After Afterwards Again Again Again Age Age, a period of time Air Alertness All over All things All All All Alone Alone Alone Aloof Also Aluminiyam Always America

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English-Tamil Vocabulary List at the University of Pennsylvania http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/englishtamil.html

Anger Angry Animal Anklet Annoyance Another Answer Ant Ant-hill Anxiety Anything Appearance Apple Apprehension Approximately Approximately Approximately Area Areca nut Arise Arrive (IIintr.) Art

As usual As you like

Asafoedita Ascertain (II intr.)Ash color (grey) Ask (IV tr.)

Assemble (VI tr.) Assurance

Astringency At least a little (formal)

At least a little At what time

Attempt Attention Attractiveness Aunt Aunt Aunt Auspicious time Author Available (VI intr.) Avenge onself Await Awake (VI intr.)

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Back portion of the hut Bad luck

Bad luck Bad man Bad omen Bad Bad Bag Balance Bamboo Banana (ripe) Banana stem

Banana (unripe) Banana flower

Bangle Bark (VI intr.)Bat Bathe (VI intr.)Bathroom Bazaar Bazaar Be afraid of Be available (VI intr.) Be born Be careful Be cold (II intr.)Be easy, be like water off aduck's back

Be found (IV intr.)

Be funny (VII intr.) Be hungry (VI intr.)

Be obtained (VIintr.)

Be quiet (VIIintr.)

Be sold (V intr.) Be unhappy Be upset, complain about Be visible

Be (VII intr.) Bear Bear Beard Beat (a drum) (III tr.) Beat (VI tr.)

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Beatel leaf Beautiful Beautifully Because Because of what Because Become (III tr.) Become (III intr.)Bed Bed-bug Bedbug Bee Beetle Before Before Before

Before Begin to rain, pour (VI intr.)

Begin (VI tr.) Begin (III tr.)Behind Behind Behind Believe (III tr.)Bell Below Below Beneath Besides that Bicycle Bicycle Bicycle Big Bill, account Bind (III tr.) Bird Birth day Biscuit Biscuit Bit Bitch at (VItr.) Bitterness

Black Black pepper Black bear Black mustard seed Blame (IIIintr.) Blanket

Blend (II tr.) Blink (VI intr.)Blow (III tr.) Blow (III tr.)

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Blue Board

Body Boldly written

Bombay Bombay Bone Book shop Book Book Border of a sari Borrow Boss Both the persons Bother (IIItr.) Box

Boxer Boy Boy Boy Boys Brain Brain Brass Bread and butter Break (VI tr.)

Breathe Breeze Bride Bridegroom Bridge Brightness Bring (IIintr.)

Bring along (II intr.)

Bronze Brothers Brother-in-law Brother-in-law Brother Buffalo Bug Build Building Bull Bullock cart Bullock Bundle Burn Burning Burst (VI intr.)

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Bus stand Bus Business Business Busy (VIIintr.) Busy

But Butter Butterfly Buttermilk Buy (III intr.) By one's hand(s)

Cabbage Calculate from memory

Calf California Call (VI tr.) Camel Canada Candy Car Car Cardamon Care (VI tr.)Care Carefulness Carefully Carrot Cart Cash table Cash box Cash Cashews Cat Cat Catch (VI tr.)Cause to become (III tr.) Cave

Cease (III tr.) Cease (VI tr.)Center Centipede Certainty Ceylon Chair Chair Chana dal Chance Change (III intr.) Change Change (III tr.) Chapathi

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Chastity Cheap Chest Chicago Chicks Chick Chicken Chidambaram Child Child Chili Choice Chutney Chutney Cinnamon City Class Clay Clean (VI tr.) Cleanness Cleanliness Cleanness Clear up the debts (VI tr.) Clearly

Clear up (VI tr.) Clever person Climb down (IIIintr.) Climb up (III intr.)

Climb (III intr.) Clock Close (VI tr.) Close Close (II intr.) Close Close (III tr.) Close Clothes Clothes line Cloth Cloud Clove Clump Cockroach Coconut Coffee Coffee powder Coimbatore Coin Coins College Come as a messenger (II intr.) Come in, hello

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Come (II intr.) Comfortably Committee Common Completely Complete (VI tr.)Compound (buildings in acompound) Compulsory

Computer Conceal (VI tr.)Concentrate Concern Condiments Conduct Confused noise Connoisseur, fans Conquer (V tr.) Consider (VI tr.)Continue (II tr.) Convenience Convenience Convict Coocoo Cook Cooked rice Cooked rice Cooked rice Cooking Cool (II intr.) Copper Coral Coriander Corn Corn Corner Correct Correct Cot Cotton Country Country Count Count (III tr.) Country Couple Courage Cow Cow Crab Cracker Crane Craze, madness Craze Crore

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Cross Crow Crow Crow Crowd Crowd Crowd Cry (II intr.)Cubit Cucumber Culcutta Cunning Cup Curd Curry stuffs Custom Customs Cut off (VI tr.)Cut (III tr.) Cycle Cyclone Daddy Dagger Daily Daily Daily Dance (III tr.) Danger Dark Date Daughter Day before yesterday Day time Day Day Day Dcrease Deaf Dear Debt Debt Deceive (III tr.)Deceit Decision Dedicate (VI tr.) Deed Deep thinking Deep

Deep-fried snack Deer Default Defect Deficate (III tr.) Deficiency

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Deficiency (n) Deficit Definitely Deity Delhi Deliver (VI tr.)Demand Demolish (VI tr.)Depart Descend (III intr.)Desert Desire Desire Dessert Destroy (VI tr.) Develop (VI tr.)Dew Dhobi Dhobi Dhoti Dhoti Dhoti Diamond Different Difficulty Dignity Dinner Directly Disappear (II intr.) Discontent (n)Discontinue (VI tr.) Dismantle

Disperse Displeased (Iintr.)

Dispute Distance Disturbance Do (I tr.)Do (III tr.) Doctor Doesn't matter Dog

Donkey Door way Door Door Doubt Dove Drama Drawer Drink (VI tr.) Drink up (VI tr.)

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Drive out of the way (IV tr.) Drive out

Drop (IV tr.) Drum stick Dry clean Dry Duck Dust of the ground Dust Each time Eager Ear Ear Earn (VI tr.)Earnestness Earring Earth Earth Easily Easily East Easy (n)Easy (adv.) Eat (V tr.)Eat Edition Education Efficiency Egg Egg Eggplant; brinjal Eggplant Eight Eight hundred Elder brother Electricity Elephant Eleven Emerald Empty End, final Endeavor

English English sentence

Enough Enquire (VI tr.)Enquire (IV tr.) Enter (II intr.)Enthusiasm Entire Entire Entire Entrance steps, door Envy

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Errand boy - Error

Especially Estimate, regard, respect (VItr.)

Evening Evening Evening Evening Every Everyday Everyone Evict (III tr.)Evil eye Exam Except Excuse (VI tr.)Expand (VI tr.) Expense Explain (III tr.) Explanation Extend, stick out (IIItr.) Extensive

Eye Face Face Fainting Faithfulness Fall (II intr.)Family man Family

Family Famous Fast Fast Fate Father Fault Favor Fear Fear

Fear Feel light-headed

Fellow, boy Female cow

Fenugreek Fenugreek Fertility Festival

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Few Field Fiercely, quickly Fifteen Fifty Finally Finance Fine Fine Finger Finish (II intr.) Fire First Fish Five hundred Five Flood Floor

Flour Flow, ooze, pour (IIItr.)

Flower Fly (II intr.)Fodder Fold Food Food Food Fool Foot (measurement) Foot (part of body) For what/which Forbid, restrain Forehead Foreign country Forest Forget (II intr.)Forget (II tr.) Fort Forty Four hundred Four Fourteen Fox Fragment Fragrance Free choice Free Freedom Friday Friend Friend Friend

Friends From street to street-

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From now on Front Front Fruit Fry (VI tr.) Fry (IV tr.)Fun Funeral drum Funeral drum Furlong Gabbing Garbage Garden Garlic Gate way Generation Gentleman Gently

Get lost Get lost (IIIintr.)

Get off (III intr.) Get up (II intr.)Get (VI intr.) Get (III intr.)Gift Ginger Giraffe Girl Give birth (IV tr.) Give (II tr.)Give (VI tr.) Glass Glow Glue Go around (III tr.) Go around (III tr.)Go back (III intr.) Go by walk Go (III intr.) Goat God God God God Gold Gold Gone Good conduct

Good man Good bye

Good Good-bye

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Good-for-nothing fellow- Government

Grand father Grandchildren Grand mother Grapes Grapes Grass Gravey Great Great Great fun Great Green Greens Green banana Green tomato Greetings Grinding stone Grip Grocery store Grocery Group Grove Guava Guava (ripe) Guess (VI tr.) Guest Hair Half sari Half Hand Happen (IV intr.) Happen (VII intr.)Happiness Hawk He He Head over heels Head

Headache Health Heart Heart Heat of the sun Heavy rain Hen Hen-pecked Her Here Heron Hesitate (III intr.)Hide (VI tr.) Hide (II intr.)

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High Hill Hill Hindrance Hippoo His Hold (VI tr.) Holy day Home town Home work Honey Horoscope Horoscope Horse Hospital Hot season Hot water Hotel Hotel Hour (o'clock) Hour House cricket House How much How many How Hunger Hungry (n)Husband Husband Hut Hyena I Idly If not Ignoring Imagination Imagine Immediately Importance Impudent fellow In front of

In the morning Inch India Indian shirt Information Injustice Insect Inside Intercede (IIIintr.) Interjection

Interjection Invade (VI intr.)

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Invite, call (IVtr.)

Invite (VI tr.)

Invite (IV tr.) Involve (IV intr.)Irascibility Iron Island It has become It Item Jackal Jackfruit Jaggery Jewelry Jewel Joke, show Jolly Juice Jump (III intr.) Just like, same as Just Just Justice Karnataka Keep closed (VItr.)

Keep the secret

Keep (VI tr.) Kerala Kerosene Key Kick out (VI tr.) Kill (V tr.)Kind King Kitchen Kitchen Kite Knife Knock (III tr.) Know (II tr.)Ladle Lake Lakh Lamp Landlord Language Lap Lap Large Large Last month Last week

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Last Last; final Lately Later Laugh (VI tr.) Laugh Lazy person Lead (III tr.)Lead Lead, manage (III tr.)Leaf Learn (V tr.)Leave (III intr.) Leave, release Leech Left over Leg Lemonade Length Lentil Leopard Less (II intr.)Less Lesson Letter Letter (alphabet) Letter Letter Level Liberal Library Lid Lie down (VI intr.) Lie, deceit Lie, measure (II tr.) Life Lift (III tr.) Light Light green Light Lightning Like (VI tr.)Like Like Lime Limit Lion Listen (IV tr.)Little Little Little Live (VII intr.)Live (VI intr.) Livelihood Living Lizard

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Load (III tr.) Loan Lock (III tr.) Look at (VI tr.)Loose (II intr.) Loose (VI tr.)Loss Lots of Louse Love (III tr.)Luck Luck, fortune Lucky man Lucky woman Madam Madness Madras Madurai Magazine Magic Make fun Make fun Make mistake (IIIintr.) Make (III tr.)

Make (I tr.) Male Man Man Man, fellow Manage (III tr.)Manage (Itr.)

Manage, run (caus.) (III tr.)

Manage, tackle (VItr.) Mango fruit

Mango Many people Many Map Marble Marriage badge Marriage Marriage Marriage Marriage drum Mass of something Master Match box Matter Means Mearly Measure (II tr.) Measuring container

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Meat Medicine Meet (VI tr.) Meet (VI tr.)Meet (VI tr.) Meeting Memory Memory Merchant Mere Message Messenger servant Messenger Middle Midnight Military Milk Milkmaid Millet Million Mind Mind (III tr.)Mind Minute Minute Minute Minute Mistake Mistake Mix together Mix (II intr.) Mix (II tr.)Mock Moment Monday Money Money Monkey Month More More, execessive, much Morning Mosquito Mostly Mother-in-law Mother Mother tongue Mount (III intr.)Mountain Mouse Moustache Mouth Move (II intr.) Move (VI tr.)Movie Movie, picture

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Much Mud Multiply (III tr.) Multiply Mumble (VItr.) Mung dal

My My Nail Nail Name Nasty Nature Near Nearby Neat Neat Neatly Necessity Necessity Neck Necklace Need Need, necessary

Neglect (VI tr.)Neighbors

Neighborhood Nest Neverthless Nevertheless Never mind New york New News News Newspaper

Next month Next door neighbors

Next Nick name Night Night Nine hundred Nine Nineteen Ninety Noise Noise, disturbance Nonsense Nook, corner Noon North

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Nose Nose Nose-jewel Not bad Not bad Nourishing Now Nuisance Nut Nutmeg Objection Ocean Odor Office Office Often Oh, God Oil Okay Okra Old man Old woman Old Omen On his part; as for him On the way

On top One by one

One hundred One who lives in the forest

One One Oneself Onion Only Ooze (III tr.)Open (VII tr.) Open (VII intr.)Open, expand (VI tr.) Open, expand (II intr.)

Opinion Opinion, thought, idea, counsel

Opponent; rival; enemy Opportunity Opposite Opposite Opposite Orange Ordinary Ordinary Orphan Otherwise

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Other Others Our Out Out Outer gate Outrage, violence Outside Outside Oversee Owl Own Own Owner Ox Ox Ox Oyster Pack, pack up Page Pain Pain Painter Paise Palace Paper Pappaya Parents Park Parrot green Parrot Partner Partner Path Path, way Pay Pea chutney Peacock

Peanuts Pearl Peas Pen Pencil Penetrate People People Perhaps Permanent, stable , Perplexity Perplexity, dizziness Person Person Person Pick up (VI tr.)

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Pickle Picture Picture Picture Piece Piece Pig Pineapple Pit Pit Pitch dark Pity Plan Plane Plate Play musical instrument Play (III intr.) Please Plenty Plenty Poet Poet Poison Police

Pomegranate Ponder, contemplate, consider (VI tr.)

Poor Poppy seed Possess (I tr.) Poster Potato Pour (III tr.)Pour (III tr.) Powder can Powder Power Pray (IV tr.) Present (VII intr.)Press (III tr.) Price Pride, vanity Problem Produce (IIItr.) Productiveness, fertility

Profession Profit Profound thinking Program

Promise Protective amulet Protect Protect

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Publish (IV tr.) Public Pulse Pulse (unsplit) Pump Pumpkin Purity Purity

Purple Put back (VItr.)

Put (VI tr.) Put (IV tr.)Qualified Quarrel Quarrel Question Question (IV tr.) Quickly Quick Quickly Quickly Quick temper Quiet Quit (III tr.)Rabbit Ragi Railway station Rain

Rain Rain (I intr.)Raisin Rasam Rat Reach, join (VI tr.)Reach, join (II intr.) Read, study (VI tr.)Ready Ready Realize Reason Receive (IV tr.) Reclining Red banana Red Regard, estimation Regret Regularly Regularly Regularity Relative Remainder Remainder Rememberence Remind

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Remoteness Rent Repeatedly, over and over again Reply

Request (Itr.) Respect

Return Reverse (III tr.)Reward Rhinoceros Ribbon Rice cake Rich person Right, privilege Right to enjoy Right (side)

Ring River bank River Road Road, street , Rock Roof Roof Room Rooster Rotate (III tr.) Ruby Run away (IIIintr.) Run

Rupee Rush Sadness Salary Salmon Saltiness Sample Sand Sandal Sari blouse Sari Sari Sari Sari Sarong for men Saturday Sauce, gravey Save money Save(money) Savings

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Savory dish Say (III tr.)Scheme, try to get School

Scorpion Scratch (II intr.)Screen Script Scuffle Sea shells Sea Search (III tr.)Seashore Season, time Season Seattle

Secret See you again

See (VI tr.) Seed Seems as Seize, attack Selam Self Selfish Sell (V tr.)Send (III tr.) Sentence Separate Separate Serve Set (fire) Set a torch to Set fire (III tr.)

Set out (III intr.) Settle (VI tr.)Settle (II intr.) Seventeen Seven Seven hundred Seventy Several, manifold Shake off (III tr.) Shame Shawl She Shed, barn, cow shed Shell

Ship Shirt

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Shoe Shop Shop-keeper Shore

Shore Short loan without a bond

Short Shoulder

Shovel Show mercy (III intr.)

Show (III tr.) Shrewd person Shrewd operator

Shut your mouth (III tr.)

Shut (III tr.) Side Side-street Significance Silk Silk Similar Simple Simple Simple Sin Sincerely yours Sinful, wretched Sing (III tr.)Sir Sir Sister Sisters Sit Sita Six Sixteen Skilful, expert person Skill Skin Skirt Sky Sky Sky Sleep (n) Sleep (III intr.) Sleep (III intr.) Slowly Small Small Small change Smash Snacks

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Snack Snake Snake gourd Snow So Soft-soap Softly Software Soil Some more Some Something Something or other Son of a gun

Son Song Soon Soon Sound Sound Soup like additive Sourness South Space bar Sparrow Speak (III intr.)Special Speciality, wonder Speed Spend Spice Spices Spider Spinach Spoil Spoil (VI tr.)Spoon Sprout (VI intr.)Squash Squirrel Stable Stainless steel Stand Standard Stand up (VIIintr.) Star

Stare Start (III intr.)Starting Start (VI tr.)Start Start out Stay (III intr.) Stay (VII intr.)

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Steal (III tr.) Step Stick (v) (III tr.) Stick Stomach Stone Stop (III tr.) Stop (II intr.)Stop (VI tr.) Storey Storm Story yard Story writer Story Stove Strain (III intr.)Strange Street Strength Stronghold Struggle, scuffle, procrastination Student

Study (VI tr.) Stuff Stupid Stupid Subject Subtract (II intr.)Subtract (VI tr.) Suddenly Sudden Sugar Sugar Sugar cane Sultriness Summer Sun Sun Sunday Sunrise Sunshine Surplus Surplus Swan Sweep (III tr.) Sweep (III tr.)Sweetness Sweetness Sweet potato Table

Table Take and come (II intr.)

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Take (VI tr.) Take (III intr.)Talk (III intr.) Tall Tamarind Tamilnadu Tamil poet Tamil letter Tamil Tangerine Tanjore Tank Taste Tea Teacher Teacher Teach (VItr.) Teasing

Telephone Tell (III tr.)Temple tower Temple Temple Ten lakhs Ten thousand Ten Tent Terrific Terrible Thank you That That The decorated end of a sari The perfect moment

The sound of a bell Theater

Their Then There Therefore Therefore They They Thievish, roguish Thin rice cake or chip(pappad) Things

Think (III tr.) Think (VI tr.)Thirteen Thirty

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This This Thousand Thread Three Three hundred Throat Thursday Thus Tie Tie, bind (III tr.) Tiger Time (repetition) Time Time Time

Time Timely thinking, timely

Times , Tin Tire Tired, be tiresome Tit for tat To be discontented To forbid, to restrain Today

Today itself Today Today Together Tolerate (VI tr.) Tomato Tomato fruit Tomorrow Tongue Tongue Toor dal Tooth Top of Torch Total Touch (IV tr.)Towel Tower Town Trademark Train Train Translate Translation Transfer Trash Treasure Tree

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Trichy Tricks

Trick Trouble , ,

Trouble Troublesome Troublesome person True Trust, believe (IIItr.) Truth

Try, attempt Tuesday Tumbler Turkey Turmeric Turn (III tr.)Turtle Twelve Twenty Twist (II intr.)Two Type Type, kind Udder Udder Ugliness

Umbrellaa Uncle (mother's brother)

Uncle Uncle Uncle Uncooked rice Under Understand Under Undershirt Understand Unfair, unjust, wrong Unique University Unlock (VII tr.) Unnecessary trouble Upset (IV intr.) Upstairs Urad dal Urgent Urgently Use (VI tr.)Usefulness Utensil Utter (III tr.) Vacate (III tr.)

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Vagrant, vagabond Vanity Vegetable Verb Very well Very much Very Vessel Vigor Village Violate (III tr.) Violet Violence Visible, be visible , Visit (III intr.) Visit (I intr.)

Visit Voice of doom, dangerous voice

Wage Wait (VII intr.)Wait Wake up (VII intr.)Wake (VII intr.) Walk (VII intr.)Wall Wandering Wander (II intr.) Wander (II intr.)Want (III tr.) Want Warn (VI tr.) Wash

Wash (III tr.)Wash(with water) (IIItr.)

Wasp Waste Watch, clock Water Water Wave, shake (III tr.)We (excl.) We (incl.)Wear (III tr.) Wedding Wednesday Week Weep (II intr.) Welcome (n) Welcome (v) Welcome Well Well

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West Wet What a guy What What's that , Wheat When When Where Which Which (pl.) Which Whip White Whitewash (VI tr.) White

Who Who Whole of Whole Whole Why Wife Wind Wind Window Window Wipe (VI tr.)Without any purpose Wolf Woman Woman Wonderful Wonderful, very good Wood apple fruit Wood Word Work Work Work, job Worm Worry Worry Worry Worship (IV tr.) Worship Worst man Worth Wrap (III tr.) Wrestler Wrist Write (III tr.)Yard Year

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Yellow Yes Yesterday Yet Yogurt You You Young Younger brother Younger sister Your Your

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